PowerBuilder Vertex connection - connection

I am trying to connect to a Vertex tax database using PowerBuilder 11.1 and am having problems with the following code.
I think I am connecting correctly since the return codes for ls_status_text = loo_xmlhttp.StatusText is 200 and ll_status_code = loo_xmlhttp.Status is OK.
When I get the return value from the ls_response_text = loo_xmlhttp.ResponseText code the return value is the MOTW message.
I am expecting the following code to send the ls_get_url (which contains the xml to be sent to vertex) and receive a large xml in return with calculated tax rates based off the ls_get_url xml. What I am getting is ls_status_text = 'OK' and ll_Status_code = 200 ( anything >300 is a problem).
// Get request
loo_xmlhttp.open ("GET",ls_get_url , false)
loo_xmlhttp.send()
//Get response
ls_status_text = ''
ls_status_text = loo_xmlhttp.StatusText
ll_status_code = loo_xmlhttp.Status
after the above block of code runs successfully the following code runs:
if ll_status_code >= 300 then
MessageBox("HTTP POST Request Failed", ls_response_text)
else
//Get the response we received from the web server
ls_response_text = loo_xmlhttp.ResponseText
MessageBox("POST Request Succeeded", ls_response_text)
end if
I get the "POST Request Succeeded" messagebox but the ls_response_text contains the Mark Of The Web syntax.
Do you have any ideas that can help me along?
Thanks!
String ls_get_url, ls_post_url
String ls_post_variables, ls_response
String ls_response_text, ls_status_text
long ll_status_code
OleObject loo_xmlhttp
//include parameters on the URL here for get parameters
ls_get_url = 'http://10.1.1.65:8095/vertex-ui/vertextcc.jsp'
try
//Create an instance of our COM object
loo_xmlhttp = CREATE oleobject
loo_xmlhttp.ConnectToNewObject( 'Microsoft.XMLHTTP')
// Get request
loo_xmlhttp.open ("GET",ls_get_url , false)
loo_xmlhttp.send()
//Get response
ls_status_text = ''
ls_status_text = loo_xmlhttp.StatusText
ll_status_code = loo_xmlhttp.Status
//Check HTTP Response code for errors
if ll_status_code >= 300 then
MessageBox("HTTP GET Request Failed", ls_response_text)
else
//Get the response we received from the web server
ls_response_text = loo_xmlhttp.ResponseText
MessageBox("GET Request Succeeded", ls_response_text)
end if
ls_post_url = 'http://10.1.1.65:8095/vertex-ui/vertextcc.jsp'
ls_post_variables = "I add my custom xml here - I can run it in the vertex software and the xml executes fine"
loo_xmlhttp.open ("POST",ls_post_url, false)
loo_xmlhttp.send(ls_post_variables)
//Get response
ls_status_text = loo_xmlhttp.StatusText
ll_status_code = loo_xmlhttp.Status
//Check HTTP Response code for errors
if ll_status_code >= 300 then
MessageBox("HTTP POST Request Failed", ls_response_text)
else
//Get the response we received from the web server
ls_response_text = loo_xmlhttp.ResponseText
MessageBox("POST Request Succeeded", ls_response_text)
end if
loo_xmlhttp.DisconnectObject()
catch (RuntimeError rte)
MessageBox("Error", "RuntimeError - " + rte.getMessage())
end try

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